ETH Interface names

[Jan Kokoska]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:11 -0300, limaunion wrote:
> First off Ubuntu rocks!! I'm planning to switch in a couple of weeks my 
> workstation (FC1) and notebook (FC2). Right now I'm running it on a 
> second partition trying to learn some specific Debian/Ubuntu commands 
> like apt, rc.update.d, etc.
> 
> I'm having a very simple problem, my workstation has two network 
> interfaces (forcedeth & ne2k-pci drivers), under FC1 eth0=ne2k-pci and 
> eth1=forcedeath (actually I use the nvnet driver in FC1), but under 
> Ubuntu it's the opposite (eth0=forcedeth & eth1=ne2k-pci); I want to 
> revert this and keep the FC naming, any suggestions/comments ? Why does 
> this happens ? Another thing is that if I don't see eth0 from GNOME's 

Order of loading of driver modules. You can specify it directly
in /etc/modules or use logical names based on MAC address. You would
most likely need a script for this, see "man interfaces".
Editing /etc/modules is definitely the easier way around.

Regards,
Jan